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Each year the steering committee of the Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining considers two special awards - The Most Influential Paper award and the Most Distinguished Contribution Award.

PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award 2000-2009 29 April 2009

The candidates for the Most Influential Paper Award are those papers published at this conference in a particular year. The award began with the tenth anniversary of this conference series. This year's candidates were drawn from the 4th PAKDD conference, held in Kyoto, Japan, in 2000.

This award recognises the impact of the paper, based on citations. The winning paper has received 300 citations. This compares to an average citation rate for PAKDD 2000 of 21.83, which is an excellent citation rate in itself. The nearest rivals received 82, 76, and 71 citations.

The winning paper is:

Mining Access Patterns Efficiently from Web Logs by Jian Pei, Jiawei Han, Behzad Mortazavi-Asl, Hua Zhu

PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award 2009 29 April 2009

The Distinguished Contribution Award is awarded to a KDD researcher with a significant research track record and demonstrated strong support for the PAKDD conference series. The purpose of the PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award is to recognise and honour an individual who has made significant and continued contributions in research and services to the advancement of the PAKDD conferences.

The award is given to an individual whose research work has been published through the PAKDD conferences and who has made significant and continued contributions to the PAKDD community through sustained participation in the organization of the PAKDD conferences. Nominations for this award are presented to the PAKDD Steering Committee and they decide. The 2009 award for most distinguished contribution goes Professor David Cheung, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development, of the University of Hong Kong for his persistent outstanding contributions to PAKDD and eminent academic record. The citation for the award notes that Professor Cheung has been associated with the PAKDD Conference since it inception, serving on the steering committee since 2001 including a period as the chair of the steering committee. He was chair of the program committee of the fifth and ninth PAKDD conferences, in 2001 and 2005 and conference chair of PAKDD 2007. Professor Cheung has actively promoted the conference series in the Asia Pacific region and beyond and continues to encourage his own students and colleagues to contribute to the PAKDD series of conferences. Professor Cheung has a distinguished academic research career, introducing many new students to data mining and pushing forward the boundaries of research in data mining. His publications appear in many highly regarded conferences and journals. He and his students continue to support PAKKD as a conference of choice for presentation of research. Copyright © 2006-2009 PAKDD Steering Committee
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